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You can have sci-fi that showcases cool technology and how it relates to society. We've done it before, and it's some of the most popular and influential sci-fi ever created. It's called Star Trek (communicators, transporters, medical scanners, replicators, holodecks, etc). But even utopian sci-fi like Star Trek is mainly centered around conflict, what it means to be human, and other philosophical and existential questions. A show that's only about how cool the tech is, really isn't a show at all. It's an advertisement.
Gadget Man is probably one of the closest
Is that like the Wish/Temu version of Inspector Gadget?
It's a show hosted by Richard Ayoade about different "modern" tech gadgets ("modern" because it came out a decade ago).
I think he is referring to this.